Without their top two players, Spartans score early for big win. No Caitlyn Salo? No Brittany Gray?
No problem.
The Bainbridge girls basketball team came out and scored on their first five possessions en route to a 53-25 pasting of the Bishop Blanchet Braves Wednesday night at Paski Gymnasium.
The win puts them back at .500 and leaves them two games behind Holy Names for third place in the Metro League Mountain Division.
The defending dive champ enjoys solving a problem when it comes up. It’s a practice like any other practice that’s occurred in the past.
Olaf Olson gets on the board, does a one and a half backflip into the water, receives some instruction from Bainbridge Island Diving Club coach Chris Miller, watches the replay on the television, then gets back on the board and does the same thing again.
But there’s no feeling that Olson is just going through the motions of another practice.
Welsh goes undefeated in the all-around for first time in several years; Bainbridge hangs onto the ball, win three straight away games in four days. Katherine Samstag was understandably nervous as she sat with her teammates waiting for the final scores of the meet between Bainbridge and North Kitsap.
The senior co-captain wasn’t sure if they had scored well enough in the four events to earn a win.
But despite a bad showing on the bars, the Spartans performed well on the vault and floor to get the win – albeit a close one – in their regular season finale over the Vikings 157.75-155.35 Friday night at BHS.
A season that started with such promise is suddenly falling apart for the Bainbridge girls basketball team.
Their 58-37 loss to the ninth-ranked Rainier Beach Vikings on Wednesday left the team angry, frustrated and in need of a spark to right themselves.
Spartans overcome a tough Sealth team, stay undefeated in Metro League play. The Bainbridge boys basketball team got a big boost from one of their big men.
Cody Gibler registered a triple-double of 28 points, 18 rebounds and 10 blocks as the number one ranked Spartans outlasted the fourth ranked Chief Sealth Seahawks 77-68 in overtime Friday night at Chief Sealth High School in Seattle.
Olaf Olson breaks a dive record, but the Spartans lose by one to Metro rival O’Dea.
After the Spartans’ meet against Lakeside in ealry December, Bainbridge swim coach Kaycee Taylor was excited when he talked about how the team would do this year.
Sure, their meet of a week ago against O’Dea had been canceled due to snow, but they would make it up. Besides, it was probably a one-time thing that it snowed, given the meteorological history of Western Washington.
Six weeks and two cancellations later from reasons due to wind to snow to even ice, the season has been turned on its (swimmer’s) ear.
And Taylor and the rest of the team has tried to deal with it the best that they can.
Four wrestlers score pins in their last home match of the season. The constant onslaught of bad weather has kept high school teams across the state from maintaining a consistent schedule.
The Bainbridge wrestling team is no different – especially when the other matches that did happen didn’t have many opponents with whom to do battle.
“They were ready to wrestle someone else,” head coach Dan Pippinger said of his club. “We worked them pretty hard this week.”
Bainbridge falls to the state’s top-ranked 4A school, Franklin. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON – It may not have been as big as the frenzy stirred up when NBA star LeBron James left practice from a side gym where the Cleveland Cavaliers were practicing.
But the non-league matchup between the Franklin Quakers and the Bainbridge Spartans was big enough for the teams and their fans.
Venoy Overton and Peyton Siva each scored 22 points as Franklin beat Bainbridge 73-64 at the King Holiday Hoopfest at the Bank of America Arena on the University of Washington campus Monday.
It was the Spartans’ first loss this season.
BHS alum works hard to give back to others, wants to instill good values for life. Bainbridge wrestling assistant coach Matt Pedersen has known head coach Dan Pippinger ever since Pedersen was a high school senior, and Pippinger was an eighth grader just learning about wrestling back in 1989.
Pedersen advanced his friend’s career with a resource the younger wrestler didn’t have: a car.
“I would drive him around to freestyle tournaments,” he said.
When Pedersen came back to the island in 2000 and became a volunteer assistant coach with the high school team, he got to know Pippinger all over again as an adult and as a coach.
To him, it’s no surprise that Pippinger now is the one in charge.
The Bainbridge High School winter teams are facing off against top ranked teams night in and night out – that is, when they’re not facing a more unfriendly adversary in Mother Nature.
The Spartan boys and girls basketball teams along with the gymnastics and boys swimming teams had their games, meets and matches cancelled Friday thanks to another storm front that moved in over the week and brought below freezing temperatures and snow.
Gray, Sharar are big in Sparts’ first victory over Prep in four years. If the Bainbridge boys basketball team are to make a run to the state tournament, they’ll need some unsung players to step up and contribute.
Rudy Sharar did just that, coming off the bench to score 14 points as the Spartans defeated defending 3A state champion Seattle Prep Panthers 61-41 in front of a large and loud crowd Friday night at Paski Gymnasium.
Ben Eisenhart and Kirsten Michael look to make their mark.
When it comes to crunch time in a crucial contest in the next few months – be it a league game or in the Metro, district or even state tournament – everyone on the Spartan hoops squads will be counted on to contribute.
Two first-year varsity players, both sophomores, are ready when the call comes.
Big plays help Bainbridge subdue the Vikings, as a tough stretch looms. POULSBO – In front of a packed house with fans from both sides cheering their teams on, the North Kitsap Vikings did all they could to live up to their fantasies of delivering the upset of the year over their long-time rival in the Bainbridge boys basketball team. But it took one play from Steven Gray to bring everything back to reality.
